Meetings

IP Telephony (aka Voice Over IP)

Matt Miller
Cisco Systems

Abstract

PBX's as we know today are becoming "Jurassic" in their ability to keep up
with the pace of technology and the demands of customers today. Over the
past 5 years IP Telephony has been evolving into a fully featured PBX
replacement, but more importantly, a completely ubiquitous, standards
based, software solution.

Gone are the days of being "locked in" to a PBX manufacturer for every
component, feature set, upgrade, etc. IP telephony allows customers to
choose phones from a variety of different manufacturers and even different
applications to work in conjunction with their Software based PBX. Even
more compelling is the ability for customers to write their own
applications to work with their phone systems and phones.

Cisco Systems, Inc. provides software based IP Telephony solutions for
Enterprises and scaling to the Medium and Small business. The phones have
a large pixel based display that is an XML parser. The display can be
pointed to URL's to display any type of information, text or graphics. The
PBX is almost infinitely scale able and flexible because it is software
upgrade able and not reliant on hardware.

Take 355 to Butterfield Rd (Rt 56).
Butterfield West to Lambert
Rd. Lambert Rd North to 22nd St. West on 22nd St to Lot 9 or 10
entrance. South into lot 9 or 10. Park in lot 9 or 10 and walk to
the OCC (Open Campus Center) building. The meeting room is 128(b,c)
which is towards the west end of the building.

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